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Democrats Will Introduce Bill To Bring Back Net Neutrality (thehill.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Hill: Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) announced Monday that Democrats will introduce a net neutrality bill to replace the open internet rules that were repealed in 2017. In a letter to her Democratic colleagues, Pelosi said a bill called the "Save the Internet Act" will be unveiled Wednesday and will be introduced in the Senate as well. The text of the legislation has not been released, and it's unclear what will be included in the bill. Democrats have railed against the Trump administration's Federal Communications Commission (FCC) vote to repeal the net neutrality rules, which happened more than a year ago. The 2015 regulations prohibited internet service providers from blocking or throttling websites or creating internet fast lanes.
Net Neutrality has something like 80% + positive support among voters. Trump is already having the GOP Senate OVERRIDE his emergency order, if he picks another losing position before the election like vetoing what people want he's just risking more of the moderates he desperately needs having another irrefutable example that he's all swamp, in the pocket of big money and not doing his job of protecting them. Not all Republican voters are completely stupid. Just most.
As a Republican, I'm perfectly fine with reasonable neutrality legislation while I also agreed with Ajit's pulling the plug. Using ancient common carrier classifications to regulate the internet was not the right way to do it. Doing it through proper legislation from Congress is the correct way. Legislation that understands modern communications and data. Not some agency deciding to use rules designed for POTS carriers to regulate the internet.
It was the wrong way to do it and needed to be ended. If Congress succeeds, it means that Ajit succeeded in forcing Congress to do its job.
I do hope everyone here will read what the bill ACTUALLY SAYS, rather than merely the claims that are going to be made about the bill...
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
You mean like the Tax Cut? The one that gave all the cuts to the top 1%? How many pages was that? And nobody got to see it even before it was brought to a vote? Yeah Pot, go ahead, call Kettles black.
My paycheck grew, so whatever was in the tax cuts worked for me.
I do not belong to the church of the lowercase 'i'
My paycheck grew, so whatever was in the tax cuts worked for me.
The clown and his circus fucked with withholdings to trick the masses into assuming it was tax cuts.
Tax day rolls around and millions are pissed they either get to pay or their refund is crap. LOL suckers.
Considering that they consistently have worked against your interests for the last 50 years, how do you motivate still calling yourself a Republican?
Against my interest? How is having the federal government take over every aspect of my life so that I can be as equally poor as you in my interest? How do you even know what my interests are? How is guaranteeing a living wage to people who can't work, or don't want to work in my interests? How in ruining the greatest healthcare system and the greatest economy in the world in my interests?
You are a willfully blind idiot that can not see how great the country you live in truly is. Please leave at your earliest convenience and take all the rest of the self-hating, racist democrats with you.
Aah, change is good. -- Rafiki
Yeah, but it ain't easy. -- Simba